The Film: Runaway Train
Based on: Ivor The Engine, created by Oliver Postgate and shown on both ITV and the BBC in the ‘60s and 70s.
Classic paper cutout animation with the titular steam engine and the various eccentrics (including, because it was Welsh, a dragon) populating a quiet branch line.
Tagline: “Steaming along to its doom!”
Starring: Michael Sheen as Jones The Steam.
Synopsis: On a normal day, things are sedate and happy on the small branch line that still runs “in the left hand corner of Wales”.
But something has gone wrong today – the brakes have failed and star engine Ivor is barrelling towards a stricken school bus full of trapped kiddies.
Can Jones The Steam – with help from Alice The Elephant – slow Ivor down enough to prevent child-splattered doom?
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Joliet68
Jun 1st 2009, 14:41
Funnily enough, this has already been turned into a stage show by, of all people, Joe Pasquale. It's actually very good. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2006/03/01/rentaghost_feature.shtml
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evs75
Jun 1st 2009, 16:55
I'm sure a few years ago that Mr. Benn was being touted around as starring John Hannah in the lead and Ben Kingsley as the shopkeeper. Whereas I don't really think John Hannah is a big enough name, still wouldn't wanna see a Yank like Carrell nab the role...keep Benn British!!!
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